Our
special projects director, Nelson Kruschandl, is pictured below
during his visit to HMS Warrior in November 2003 as part of his maritime
history researches. Nelson said: "Apart from
the serious research issues, it is a trip through the ages
which everyone should make time to
experience". "You can feel the
atmosphere and begin to imagine life in the Navy when
canon ruled supreme".

Nelson
on Warrior's foredeck November 2003

The
Historic Dockyard at Portsmouth houses some of the best
preserved original fighting ships, including HMS Victory
and the Mary Rose. There are also submarines
and other Navy vessels on display as a proud reminder of
our maritime heritage. It is nothing less than a
miracle these ships are in existence, underlined by the
incredible long term effort and enormous cost of raising
and preserving the remains of the Mary Rose.

We
were lucky enough to visit both the Victory and Warrior on the same day Master
and Commander was being premiered at Portsmouth. The action
scenes in this truly great film are extremely historically
accurate. You'd only appreciate the detail, if you'd visited a
wooden ship of the line recently. We had - and what an experience
it turned out to be.

One
of the 40" steam pistons of HMS Warrior

PORTSMOUTH
HISTORIC DOCKYARD

Portsmouth
Historic Dockyard is a great day out on the South
Coast. Admission
tickets include entry to Mary Rose, HMS Victory, HMS
Warrior 1860, Action Stations, the Royal Naval Museum
and a Harbour Boat Tour!

Use the
links below to find out more about Portsmouth Historic
Dockyard and its many treasures.

The
latest Solarnavigator is a robot ship designed to be capable of an autonomous
world navigation set for an attempt in
2015 if all goes according to schedule. The platform is also ideal for
persistent monitoring 365 days year 24/7 - with data streamed back to
your command HQ via satellite.